A**holes in Paradice

Ok, so I'm a pretty easy going person in most situations... the other day there was like a birthday party or something in the park our house faces.... there were a lot of cars as the normal bicyclists showed up... to use the bike path. Ok, next to our house is the Water Dept. for the city of Brayton and next to that is a road that loops around to the post office and some grain storage silos... there is much open space on the road and by the silos thus overflow parking.... yet in spite of that, some jerk-off in a giant SUV chose to park in my driveway - right next to my truck which is clearly pulled back to the garage... I came out on to the front steps and said nicely..." Hey, that's not part of the park... that's my driveway..." The guy and his wife both looked at me with this kind of so what look and said, "Yeah, Ok..." and kept walking.... Honestly I couldn't have cared less at that point... until they just ignored me... I hate how so many people who drive giant SUV's seem to function with this weird sense of "entitlement" - meaning, "I'll drive like an a**hole and park where I want... what are you going to do about it...?" I used to drive transit buses... the typical city bus is 40' long and weighs about 16.5 tons... you'd think that someone with half a brain - even someone in an SUV would opt not to cut off the one vehicle that could knock them into the middle of the next week... You'd be wrong... anyway, the only way we got the A**hole to move was to be seen by him writing down his plate number and taking pictures of the offending SUV - I'd squeezed off about a half dozen frames when I saw him go for his keys.... What's with that? Why the overt dickishness? I have tried my level best to keep a low - very low, profile. I just know that if I parked in anyone's driveway around here I get asked with a shot gun or behind door number 2 - the local Authority would be all over me... . Teresa said " It's because you're black that they just ignored you..." The conversation then went to..."If you'd been an old white guy saying get out of my driveway... they wouldn't have even hesitated to move the SUV....." I don't go looking for spooks in that sense, but sadly I think that she is right... could this place blow any harder... sorry, rhetorical question... I don't even want to know the answer to that.....